Captain questions

[Way2Broke]

How do you guys answer the drunk captain question and the captain below mins question?

 

[DrewBlows]

Everyone's answer should be their own and the question can be asked a lot of different ways, but if you keep the general principles on not breaking regulations and not breaking FARs, you should be able to answer the question quite easily. You would never allow a Captain to fly drunk and you would never allow a Captain to knowingly take you below minimums without the airport in sight. With a crosswind it's possible the Captain sees the runway but you don't depending on company procedures, ie. who's outside and who has the controls. Use and explain whatever your current company procedure is.

 

[minitour]

You would never allow a Captain to fly drunk and...

Blasphemy!!!!

-mini

 

[tathepilot]

captian below mins first time, talk to him.. this is unsafe blah, blah next time ill report you..

2nd time, call go around and report him...

this is from an hr/cp

 

[time builder]

Everyone's answer should be their own and the question can be asked a lot of different ways, but if you keep the general principles on not breaking regulations and not breaking FARs, you should be able to answer the question quite easily. You would never allow a Captain to fly drunk and you would never allow a Captain to knowingly take you below minimums without the airport in sight. With a crosswind it's possible the Captain sees the runway but you don't depending on company procedures, ie. who's outside and who has the controls. Use and explain whatever your current company procedure is.

I agree the answer should be your own, rehearsed as it may be. As far as the drunk captain goes, I believe I have found common consensus with other pilots that the appropriate action to take involves being a team player. First try to resolve it with the captain (have him call it off, call in sick etc.), and then if push comes to shove, take it up the appropriate lines of authority, but bottom line is that you're not going with a drunk captain.

 

[tathepilot]

First try to resolve it with the captain (have him call it off, call in sick etc.)

bad, bad, bad... if no one finds out about it, (s)he will do it again..

 

[NoPax]

Drunk Captain? -
Ask if the captain feels off color
Suggest maybe the captain should call in sick
If the captain doesnt call in sick, then use a sick day to stop the flight
Bottom line...stop the flight.
There is a lot of time, and a lot of methods available to stop the flight.

Captain below mins?
If there is absolutly no approach lights or runway environment in sight, and the captain is pilot flying - say "below mins, go missed"
If the captain continues - transmit on the radio that you are going missed - that's the most effective way to make the captain/PF go missed.
There is no time to mess around in this situation

 

[Fedora]

If the captain continues - transmit on the radio that you are going missed - that's the most effective way to make the captain/PF go missed.
There is no time to mess around in this situation

The other way is to hit the TOGA button or just pust the throttles up.

 

[svcta]

The other way is to hit the TOGA button or just pust the throttles up.

That'll get you fired. Those throttles aren't yours until you take the airplane from him/her. Two people trying to fly the same a/c will crash it faster than a Star Trek fan in an Asian massage parlor.

 

[minitour]

That'll get you fired. Those throttles aren't yours until you take the airplane from him/her. Two people trying to fly the same a/c will crash it faster than a Star Trek fan in an Asian massage parlor.

Yep...down low is no place to be wrestling for flight controls or the throttles/power levers. "Tower, Delta123 missed approach" is much more effective.

-mini